Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of the most spectacular crimes of the Victorian era was the murder of 55-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas, whose skull was not found until 132 years later. On March 22, 1879, after returning from church, she was killed and brutally dismembered by her...
Bestiality in Crime
Morphium, now known as morphine, was invented in 1804 by the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, who succeeded in extracting the substance from opium, the milky sap of the opium poppy. As this was an effective painkiller that calmed the wounded, he named his...
A nun who, in the name of God, is believed to have more than 177 people to her name was the Greek woman Mariam Soulakiotis, better known as Mother Rasputin. She is not only regarded as one of Greece’s most notorious female serial killers,...
The Czech police made a truly gruesome discovery in the large Orlík reservoir, situated south of Prague. There, inside a rusty barrel, they found a dismembered body that had been doused with caustic soda to cause it to decompose. Shortly afterwards, in the summer...
Known as the “Black Widows of Liverpool,” the Irish sisters Catherine and Margaret Flannagan went down in English criminal history; they were so famous that their wax figures were on display for nearly a century in Madame Tussauds’ “Chamber of Horrors” in London. In...
1672 is considered the year of catastrophe for the Netherlands, known as the “Rampjaar,” during which a brutal lynching of the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt took place, based on a diabolical plot. For two decades, from 1650 to 1672, the country experienced...
